grim013

First off, Seeing as to how the INJEN and CAI have both been Dyno'd at nearly the same HP gains as a K&N drop in... People still baffle me as to why they are spending 200$ on these...

If You

a) Have a Turbo
b) Intake manifold
c) free flowing exhaust w/ no cats

Then an high performance intake will help greatly... Otherwise, it is really not worth the risk...

Personally, The fact that you hydro locked your engine sucks... In Florida we have wash outs all the time, and I can understand the decieveing factor of puddles... However, you are taking your car in with New plugs (Never been fired) and fresh oil (no milage on it) and a bent rod.. even if you go in and your 'SOS' (stuck on Stupid) they will know something is up...

Uhhh, I guess good luck..

TexP5

Water up to the headlights is actually fairly common in Houston. Much of the city is at Sea Level and we get STORMS here. We probably had four inches of rain within an hour in some parts of town on Saturday night when this happened. That much rain overwhelms the drainage systems and we flood. Happens at least three or four times a year.

A lot of people flood their cars here by driving into standing water. Another thing to consider about this incident is that Patio's car is lowered with GC coilovers. His headlights aren't your headlights, but anyway...there's no BS in his story. Anyone living in Houston would believe him in a minute

Patio, I'm with the guy who said "reinstall the stock intake, but then just tell them almost truly what happened." "Hey, I HAD to go out to get to work, or pick up my mom from work or some reason to be out." Be upfront about changing the oil and stuff cause you suspected what happened. The smaller the lie, the better it'll work. It IS within the realm of possibility that you could have hydrolocked a stock intake on Saturday night. Honestly if the water was over your headlights it was as high as the stock intake right??

Sir Nuke

WAIT A MINUTE!!! you mean this stuff isn't all TOP SECRET? omg....I am in big touble!!! :{D

grim013

Wow, common sense has gone to hell..

Lets try this again....

Nope, still sounds stupid.. Must be a texas thing..

Sir Nuke

NOPE....believe it or not....there are people like this all over the world....

I have lived in nearly every part of the united states....you run into them everywhere.

Farsyde

yeah it's not the smartest thing but think of this-look at a puddle at night in a place you've never been before-then look at a canal or lake at night. 20ft of water looks just like 2 inches at night, especially if it's pourin and the lights are out. I just got my car hit earlier today so there's someone born every minute. No harsh intensions here.

Sucks man, when sh*t happens you're always left w/o an umbrella

grim013

I Have never pooped, and needed an umbrella... Perhaps I am deficating improperly?

I try to stay away from the ones with people fishing, boating, or swimming in..

BTW: Where the hell do you people live where there can be a blind 3 foot deep puddle that no one knows about? Do you see alot of kids sitting on their front porch playing the banjo?

TexP5

Farsyde, I'd like to accept your idea that it sneaks up on people, but gotta say that 90% of 'em are just dumb.

We have streets here that flood almost everytime it rains. And every time it rains the news is full of people being swamped in those exact same places. A few of them might be the occassional out of towner, but most are probably just dumb people on the way to work.

Sir Nuke

its not YOU that doing it improperly.....its when the person in the highrise building does it improperly and YOU just happen to be walking by....SPLAT!!!

Farsyde

i didnt say it wasn't stupid but man what a way to go. Hey grim, me too-but each one you sink is 10 points!! and if they are playin the banjo its an extra 5

mnkyboy

kc5zom

Hell, when Allison came through I was driving up 45 (didn't turn on the news and realize we had a flood, the water receeded from our area by the time I woke up). All of the sudden the wife says something like is that car coming towards us. And sure enough about a dozen cars had turned around where I-45 had turned into a lake and were heading right back at us. But driving down that stretch of road in the morning it never looks like it would flood like that, and it had claimed its share of cars. Sometimes you just don't think that road/intersection/ditch would ever be flooded enough to get your car. I feel for you there Patio. Hope Mazda gets you fixed up.

Psssssttt.... I thought it was a "Green" Protege5 with no mods? Yeah, thats the ticket.

lost_concept

Guess i better hold off on getting my CAI

TexP5

Lost-concept...guess you'd beter hold off on driving through three foot puddles. Read through the posts and see how this happened. It's a safe bet it'll never happen to you.

frankd

Come on... rather than tell others to 'read through these posts' I think you need a reality check .... pleease go stand beside your P5 with a measuring tape to see where 3 ft. to the ground is. It's to the bottom of the windows, and over the top of the hood. Your entire engine compartment (and all electrical components) would be underwater. I don't believe for a minute that Patio went into *3* feet of water, and he never said he did. But... more realisticly... it would likely take only 1-2 feet of water for the engine to be swallowing water with the Injen (maybe less since his car was lowered) , and that is likely what he drove through. With the stock intake there would have been a safety factor of at least another foot .... and before you got that far much of your electrical system would be under water, causing the engine to stall before you got in 'too deep' to cause the engine to swallow water. So my point is my stock P5 engine would have survived this little flood, and his fuct up engine was directly caused by freak weather and the 'upside down snorkel' mod that sucked water into the engine.